FTA for Africa

In this site, I will discuss about all Free to air satellite for Africa.

I thought there’d be some people like me here who likes TV so much but can't afford pay TV. Free-to air satellite TV is an option.The TV channels you will have to receive depend on the size of dish you're using and also the satellite it is faced to. You have the choice of Ku band which usually needs the 90cm dish but the number of stations you will receive wont be much. If you're using 1.8m or 2.5m dish u will need C-band LNBF and that means more stations. Depending on the satellite, it can be as much as 40 to 80 channels for 1.8 and 2.5 m dish respectively. You have to bear in mind that what you're using is free-to-air and not pay TV, the type of channels you might receive will not be the best but they will be worth it. You will be Glad of what you did at the long run. I’d advise you to try FTA. All you need is just the money for the equipment, VIZ: Dish, LNBF, Receiver (Decoder), and RF cables. It’s cheaper than you can imagine. A 90cm dish costs only 50USD. A dual KU band LNBF for the 90cm dish is only 10USD and the receiver (decoder) is only 100USD. A roll of RF cable is about 10USD and that’s all you need for a Ku band FTA reception. For 1.8cm dish C-band reception, your dish will cost 100USD and the C-band LNB costs 20USD. If u want 2.5m dish (the black net type) the only difference is in the dish and it costs just 200USD. You will use the same LNB with that of 1.8cm. With C-band dish, there are a lot of choices you will have depending on the satellite want. Currently am using a 1.8m dish which is installed both a c-band LNB and attached a KU BAND LNBF by the side enabling it to get reception from to satellites, PAS 10 and Intel sat 902 both in the east.Don’t go to people who are into the installation business, the price might be at a higher price. Go to any major electronics market in your city to get them. Installation is easy. Just assemble the dish with the manual, mount the LNB/F on the dish and connect the RF cable to it and then connect the end of the cable to your receiver (decoder). Connect the Video and audio outputs from the receiver to the appropriate ports of your TV.You are ready to start; put on everything (TV and receiver) with the remote control, go to the installation menu of your receiver and put in the TP frequency and Symbol rate of the channel in the satellite you wish to locate. (Some websites where you can get these frequencies for free abound, the most popular is http://www.lyngsat.com/ ) when you're sure you have put in the correct TP and SR, go to your dish which you must have positioned in the mounting pole and start turning. With your primary geography you should know where east and west is. If the satellite is in the east face your dish in the east. Don’t adjust the elevation of the dish for now. (Elevation is the up and down movement of the dish). Make the dish stand parallel to your mounting pole. Now start adjusting the azimuth (azimuth is the side by side movement of the dish). Move from one side of the east to the other. if possible start from west . While you're doing this your eyes must be fixed at the installation menu being displayed by now on your TV. If your LNBF is good, if you move the dish slowly from east to west, there must be a point at which the signal strength will rise sharply. Try to move back and forth to locate this point. When you have done this, Screw the bolt that controls that azimuth movement and then go to the one that controls the elevation movement. Slowly again move the dish upwards until it gets to a point where the signal strength will rise very well. That’s the position of the satellite you're looking for. Remember if you have equipment that locates satellite (spectrum analyzer) you don't need all the stress.When you compare these prices with that of pay TVs you will understand what you have to gain bearing in mind that you do not have to pay anybody for anything ever!For those of us who will be ticking to ask, am not selling the equipment or in business of installation . So I have nothing to gain in all this. I'm just giving back what I have learnt for free. But if you have any problem in installation and think you might need help, reply or mail me. Next, I will list some of the satellite you can receive from Africa, Middle east and Europe

Names of Satellite, position, Frequency, Simbol rate, polarity and the size of dish

38 comments:

Hi i thank you for your great articleI am in mauritius, and i have canal satellite mauriceI would like to know if i can receive additional free channels like w9, or direct8 using their dish..i think its 80cm i think or 1m..I have been told i can get free channels using 2-5 m dishes, but its very costly.I tried to put the information you have put in teh article in my decoder settings , it did not workThe antenna is set on eutelsatw8 i thinkcan u please help me get more channels?thanksplz email me at mehdi708@gmail.com

thanx alot for your useful info,am an aspiring engineer of 19yrs about to start university.i would kindly like to know whether you can help me with 1.lnb type2.single lnb frequniverasl hi lnb freq 3.22khztone4.0/12volt switch 5.diseqc selection6.lnb power settings to view channels like canal+ and others in france or to view the the movie channels freom Arabia like mbc.thanx u can reach me on qrius@myself.com.PS.Am located in rwanda in central africa and hae been viewing sme channels using panamsat4 c and intelasat 906c

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THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR ARTICLE. HOWEVER, FOR SOME FREQUENCIES U USED "L" AND "R" INSTEAD OF "V" AND "H". HOW DO I ENTER THESE VALUES IN MY STRONG DECODER, FOR EXAMPLE FOR NTA, YOU HAVE 4060 L, 5632 3/4. IM USED TO "H" AND "V"

Sorry all for not been able to respond to your comments. @ Football Maniac and Calleb, I am sure you must have gotten the info you needed by now. @ Obinna, sure you are from Nig, if you mean code for e.tv? E.tv in Nig was a piracy and has been stopped. @ Ami, I am interested; I'd contact you by E mail. @ Megee, L means Horizontal and R means vertical; I would also want to help you with more free channels; the most current is on Mpeg 4 at 28 deg east for Multi TV

Hi I'm in Ghana and using a KU dish what are some of the fta news channels can i possibly receive .Can u also give me a list of all the channenls athat i can receive here in Ghana.thanks my email is joeaidus@yahoo.com

Great Blog, I really like it. well sorry to change the topic a little bit but it's necessary. Is it possible to to connect to the internet through these satellites. let me explain it more. I have a cable modem and a PC to connect to the net, but I don't know weather these satellites offers internet services, if they how can I connect. well was thinking since they can offer free satellites TVs they can still offer free internet services.I need help from any body that can help. thanks in advance vicrony@gmail.com

Hi, i am from the island of Mauritius Indian Ocean and i would like to get help about how i can get the program of The truth of God broadcast from the First Church of our Lord jesus Christ U.S which is on broadcasted on T.V channels through a satellite link or channel as i know that on the west side of Africa they can get it. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the good works that you are doing.Am in Ghana and using strong srt4669x decoder, please can you update me on how many channels I can get with this decoder. Thank you. my email is bsquare82@gmail.com

Hi thereThank you for your useful article. Could you please tel me How can i broadcast Tv channel by using C-Band or Ku-Band.As i planing to start my own station but I'm not sure which is the cheapest way to get to on-air. specially about affordable satellite provider

pls ,l want to verify from u whether the channel eutsatw4 can be view with any of STR decoders .and also which particular size of ku dish will be able to track d free listed channel which u indicated it would preferable use by STR decodes.am waiting for codial response to my message.

Hello,Thank you for your useful article. Could you please tell me how can i broadcast TV channel by using C-Band or Ku-Band. As i am planning to start my own station but need the easiest and cheapest way to go about it.

hie can u please explain to me how i can use c band and ku band on one dish. I have 1,8 dish connected to pas 7/10ku band can i be able to receive c band channel in the same position without moving the dish please reply to phillipdexy@yahoo.com

i need your help in this installation so i would love you to help me get it right. steptaiwo@gmail.com will be expecting your mail of help. my problem is getting the TP and SR frequency and symbol rate

hi thanks alot but i have strong decoder srt4922 and i have dstv channel on it,please can u tell me which software to use to watch the scrambled or how to watch the scrambled channels free.please this is my email blaysamuel66@yahoo.com

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Thank you for your useful article. Could you please tell me how can i broadcast TV channel by using C-Band or Ku-Band. As i am planning to start my own station but need the easiest and cheapest way to go about it

I am not trying to receive signals, I am trying to broadcast our own signals. Our church wants to put her signals as a free to air channel on MyTV satellite TV channel. Does anyone have any ideas how we can go about this?